Cover art, photos and screenshots

Reviews

The pyrotechnics of the real Dalton Trumbo are strangely muted in this film, which positions him as some noble hero and Hedda Hopper as a crazed megalomaniac. It’s far too simplistic in its worldview, and only occasionally entertaining as a piece of Hollywood history. Even then, it plays fast and loose with the truth of the situation, preferring to paint everyone on the blacklist as lily white i... read more

"
iTunes- 2hrs. 6min.
First Viewing
It's okay, but Trumbo mostly comes across as a glossy TV movie instead of a full-blooded biopic. Cranston is strong in the lead role, and the costume and production designs are quite good, but the script is just a boring hodgepodge of major events and hero-worship. A better team behind the camera likely would've yielded finer results in front of the camera."

"Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo (an American screenwriter and novelist, who scripted films including Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He was subsequently blacklisted by that industry)
"